For International Women’s Day #iwd2023 my ever-growing collection of #WomenInSTEM from the ancient world until today:
#mathematician Sophie Germaine
#astronomer Nicole-Reine Lepaute
#crystallographer Kathleen Lonsdale
Amateur mathematician Marjorie Rice
Astronomer Vera Rubin
Mathematician Katherine Johnson
Mathematician Virginia Ragsdale …
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Hypatia
Queen Seondeok
Margaret Cavendish
#Entomologist Maria Sibylla Merian
#Physicist Émilie du Châtelet
Astronomer Caroline Herschel
#Chemist Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier
#Paleontologist Mary Anning
Astronomer Mary Somerville
Marine #biologist Jeanne Villepreux-Power
#botanist Anna Atkins
Nurse & statistician Florence Nightingale
Mathematician Sophia Kovalevski
Physicist Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt
#biochemist & medical research Maude Menten
Physicists Hertha Ayrton, Lise Meitner & Harriet Brooks
#geologist Alice Wilson
Mathematician Emmy Noether
#seismologist Inge Lehmann
Pharmaceutical chemist Alice Ball
Botanist Janaki Ammal
#astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
#computerSci Grace Hopper
Mathematician Mary Golda Ross
Physicist Chien-shiung Wu
#inventor Hedy Lamarr
#phycologist Isabella Aiona Abbott
#geneticist Irene Ayako Uchida
Crystallographer Rosalind Franklin
Marine geologist Marie Tharp
Biochemist Marie Maynard Daly
Physicist & #metallurgist Ursula Franklin
Computer scientist Beatrice “Trixie” Worsley
Mathematician & #geodesist Gladys West
Physicist Mildred “Millie” Dresselhaus
Astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Mathematician Karen Uhlenbeck
Computer scientist Frances Allen
#astronaut Mae Jemison
Mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani